Luketan/antirootkit

By now many antiviruses have released antirootkits first as standalones before adding into their full antivirus packages. These include AVG antirootkit, Avira AntiRootkit Tool , Panda antirootkit ,
F-Secure BlackLight , McAfee Rootkit Detective and more

Rootkit Buster (Trend Micro) is one of them and has recently being updated.


The new version v2.2.1014 will now detect MBR rootkits.

Yet another autostart lister. My pick with reservationsWhile autoruns, runscanner, Silentrunners might be more comprehensive in terms of startup/hijack/launch points monitored, they can not detect entries hidden by rootkits.

Of course, you could use a antirootkit that provides a registry scanner , but those will usually scan and reveal ALL "hidden" entries and some of them might actually be rubbish/harmless (many entries are not really hidden but they appear hidden only because of the scanning technique).

OSAM claims to be able to detect rootkits using comparative scans while doing so only for selected autostart entries. It is kind of like autoruns with the added plus with the possibility of detecting entries hidden by rootkits.